Dev guide updated for github/easy instructions?

[Watson Ladd]

On Mon, Dec 12, 2022, 1:55 PM Nils Breunese <nils at breun.nl> wrote:

> Does https://guide.macports.org/chunked/project.github.html help?
>

A bit. What I don't know how to do is get macports to use the modified port
file. The best I can figure out is use the whole different tree, which is
mildly annoying if I forget to set it back.

>
> Nils.
>
> P.S. I believe macports-dev at lists.macosforge.org is the old address of
> this mailing list, macports-dev at lists.macports.org is the new one.
>
> > Op 12 dec. 2022, om 16:35 heeft Watson Ladd <watsonbladd at gmail.com> het
> volgende geschreven:
> >
> > This morning I realized that Pari is lagging behind, so went ahead to
> > start contributing a version bump. Unfortunately i completely forgot
> > the song and dance to make Macports process the portfile I produced,
> > and then the documentation was very pre-github migration (assumes
> > individual port files vs checking out the repo).
> >
> > Perhaps we should have a development guide update, and in the meantime
> > do i just update the sources to include my local checkout? I could
> > have sworn I've done this before, but just forgot how.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Watson
> >
> > --
> > Astra mortemque praestare gradatim
>
>
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